Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse
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Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction.
I'd rather join-lemmy (and join-fediverse) were smarter.
Have a series of questions (for join-fediverse add "what service do you want?"):
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Where are you?
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What languages do you speak?
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Select your hobbies from the list below:
And it then spits out 2 or 3 instances.
It's what I'd do if someone asked me directly for a recommendation and should be relatively easy to do.
As we say with someone posting a link to db0 on r/piracy, if you just say to people "this is the instance for you" and it seems relevant then they make the jump. I'm tempted to go to the main subs for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc and just post a link to the relevant instance.
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Be ready to get your post removed for self promotion, and yourself banned. That's what I noticed on most countries subs (except Australia I guess? [email protected] still thriving everyday)
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I'm going to disagree on this one, I've seem far too many comments, especially from LW users, along the lines of "I can't be bothered to change websites because I'm already settled in." Most people are attached to their posts and content and consider moving instance as "losing progress". And the bigger an instance is the harder it'll be to leave if they ever pull something seriously "power trippy" that could lock off content to some people, because there will be a large mass of communities and posts on that instance.
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Fair, maybe we can randomly select one of the top 10 to suggest as default.
️Idk the best solution, we can do AB testing if needed
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It might be ideal to randomly default one of the top 10 instances
The user can still choose to not go with the default, it might also spread out users more.
Currently I think people just looks whats fhe biggest, and join that. Thats basically what I did because it was overwhelming to pick
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I’m not debating terminology I just thought based on your comment that your mistakenly thought neoliberal meant liberal not new liberalism. It’s confusing they use the same root
I disagree. I mean LW is neoliberal in they see keeping the western gov status quo as good.
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thats very nice actually
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An anarchist instance having strict rules is quite ironic.
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True, but this also corporate America that needs to chase users to make the graph go up. New users will come or they won't, I think chasing them is a fool's errand.
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Spot on buddy. The web interface was rough AF until I got the app I’m using. People are going to give up easily. I’m tech savy and was an early adopter but gave up then with everything I was hearing I gave it a second shot.
